Draft Lottery

[Polish-Hammer]

gotime, the reason the other teams are involved is to disuade tanking.

Blame Pittsburgh and Edmonton.

 

[Mitchrapp]

I think there should be one or the other, lottery or expanded playoffs - not both. They can do whatever they want it will never prevent tanking. They lowered the chances of the worst team getting the top pick and yet we still have it.

But there is one reason why we have the expanded playoff format this season - Montreal & Chicago. They wanted those 2 teams in. Fact. So if either gets the top pick it's rigged.

 

[Polish-Hammer]

Technically the qualifying round isn't playoffs.

Playoffs start after the qualifying round.
Even the top 4 teams in each conference are playing just for home/away seeding. Not elimination.


It's basically to facilitate a few things:


1. Get the players match ready for when the playoffs actually start
2. In 12-14 games that weren't played, most of those teams were still in the running for a playoff spot


NHL should have just cut their losses and cancelled the season/playoffs. Give everyone the same odds for top 3 picks.

 

[biggunsbob]

I think there should be one or the other, lottery or expanded playoffs - not both. They can do whatever they want it will never prevent tanking. They lowered the chances of the worst team getting the top pick and yet we still have it.

But there is one reason why we have the expanded playoff format this season - Montreal & Chicago. They wanted those 2 teams in. Fact. So if either gets the top pick it's rigged.

Great point. Fuck you Gary ! He screwed Detroit yet again!

 

[gotime909]

gotime, the reason the other teams are involved is to disuade tanking.

Blame Pittsburgh and Edmonton.

I get that. I just think the 5 worst teams are obviously a ways from fringe playoff teams. Still do the lottery, just with 5 instead of 12-15.

 

[Mitchrapp]

If a team has a chance to win a CUP then imo it's a playoff. It's a best of 5 as, not just one game. Plus its not just 9 through 12 who play each other.

 

[Polish-Hammer]

If a team has a chance to win a CUP then imo it's a playoff. It's a best of 5 as, not just one game. Plus its not just 9 through 12 who play each other.

Every team has a chance to win the cup starting game 1 of the season.



If only 9 through 12 played each other you would still have 20 teams left. Keep in mind teams didn't play for 3 months. The teams that didn't play any games prior to the playoffs would be at a severe disadvantage.



1-4 in each conference play for home/away seeding.
5-12 play to qualify for playoffs.

Imagine Detroit is the team with 79 points with 12 games left. The last wildcard spot is 81 points. Would you not be absolutely pissed getting screwed out of the playoffs?

Plus, the percentage that a team outside the bottom 7 would have won the lottery were the same.

 

[Mitchrapp]

Every team has a chance to win the cup starting game 1 of the season.



If only 9 through 12 played each other you would still have 20 teams left. Keep in mind teams didn't play for 3 months. The teams that didn't play any games prior to the playoffs would be at a severe disadvantage.



1-4 in each conference play for home/away seeding.
5-12 play to qualify for playoffs.

Imagine Detroit is the team with 79 points with 12 games left. The last wildcard spot is 81 points. Would you not be absolutely pissed getting screwed out of the playoffs?

Plus, the percentage that a team outside the bottom 7 would have won the lottery were the same.

Aren't they all the same disadvantage since no one has played before the playoffs. As far as Detroit, call me as less teams are better. NFL has too many WC teams, baseball has too many divisions - NBA average teams in the playoffs who have 0 chance to win - plus as far as your Detroit scenario we still have that.

Look at Buffalo and NJ, both played 2 games less than Montreal, are 3 points behind. So why not expand it even more. And Montreal was 10 points from a normal spot and had to jump a bunch of teams, they weren't getting in. There's always going to be teams who miss out. There has to be a cut off at some point.

 

[Polish-Hammer]

Aren't they all the same disadvantage since no one has played before the playoffs. As far as Detroit, call me as less teams are better. NFL has too many WC teams, baseball has too many divisions - NBA average teams in the playoffs who have 0 chance to win - plus as far as your Detroit scenario we still have that.

Look at Buffalo and NJ, both played 2 games less than Montreal, are 3 points behind. So why not expand it even more. And Montreal was 10 points from a normal spot and had to jump a bunch of teams, they weren't getting in. There's always going to be teams who miss out. There has to be a cut off at some point.

And the cutoff point chosen was top 12 teams in each conference based on point percentage.

Top 4 qualify.
5-12 duke it out to qualify.

From the East, all teams from 5-11 had a good chance to make the playoffs. The only team that didn't have a real shot is Montreal.

Playoffs will still be 8 teams per conference as standard.

 

[Mitchrapp]

We're just going to disagree. A 5 game series where they call it 24-team playoff format means its a 24-team playoff. If they changed it to 1 game playoff I'd agree. Like MLB, like NCAAB.